The Invisible Library is a collection of books that only appear in other books. Within the library walls you will find imaginary books, pseudobiblia, artifictions, fabled tomes, libris phantastica, and all manner of books unwritten, unread, unpublished, and unfound.
you know it’s time for a reboot when you’re browsing the web (and posting to your blog) with the winamp minibrowser. bad cds make my computer a saaad panda.
so, on /., there’s a post on the new ai movie and the twisted and tangled web of fiction that revolves around it (try starting out with salla). it’s definitely very interesting clicking through… aicn has a huge list of sites compiled (if you wanna spoil yourself). so, the movie may end up sucking, but at least the marketing is cool. so, the proper way to do it, is to go watch the ai trailer, pay attention to the name of the sentient machine therapist, and do a google search and follow the links. ironically, you won’t find a link to her homepage at first, presumably, it’s not the order they want you to go in… there’s a linear narrative that unfolds. once you’re done, go read the aicn talk-back blather
just some notes: a lot of content was generated for these sites. it’s pretty amazing. way more than for say, the x-men stuff… view source, it’s fun. (different sites are written by different people, some w/ dreamweaver, some with golive – apparently those are pretty big late into the 22nd century, haha)
Converting HTML to other formats – a useful links provided by the w3. among them is a link to a utility called html2ps, a perl script to convert html to postscript. apparently, once upon a time netscape actually had a cgi version running alon called the “mozilla print gidget,” but now all that’s left of that is a bunch of dead links.
more converter/ps stuff:
- html converters and templates – even more
- html to postscript converters – 3 different links
- postscript & ghostscript resources – some really neat stuff, including ps resizing and other psutils
- richard’s ps junk page – lots of resources, links, and summary of all kinds of ps stuff. a good place to start.
- a first guide ot postscript and the postscript introduction also look like good guides that i’ll have to go through in depth more later. the direct postscript faq answers my question of the difference between ps levels.
What is the difference between PostScript Levels 1, 2, and 3?
Level 2 is an extension of the original Level 1 commands. Most of the additions are to do with colour printing; sophisticated methods of manipulating fonts and graphics; printer operators; or Display PostScript instructions for NeXT computers. All PostScript printers are supposed to be backwardly compatible, although some Level 1 commands have degenerated into Level 2 jargon, so that, for example, `manual feed true’ has been transmogrified into `2 setpapertray’. A recent development, called PostScript 3, integrates PostScript, the Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format, and the creation of Web pages into one progamming language.
imagemagick‘s convert tools are also good for converting pretty much anything to anything…
i’ve been really really busy and will be until may probably. probably will be posting pretty irregularly from now til then.
time to investigate log rotation…
disinformation | corporate totalitarianism and the ftaa – Basically, (globalization) won’t stop until foreigners finally start to think like Americans, act like Americans and – most of all – shop like Americans.
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